The Most Popular Stocks for Active Mutual Fund Managers

Alphabet, Microsoft, and Visa are some of the most popular stocks with fund managers these days, while Apple, Nestle, and Exxon Mobil appear to be losing the popularity contest.

The stocks show up in UBS’s latest survey of “crowded trades” by active managers. UBS looks at stocks with the most underweight and overweight positions held by active managers, relative to their funds’ benchmarks. It’s a window into stocks with the most favorable sentiment among fund managers, known as the “buy side,” along with the stocks that they...

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